Psychic Uber Driver and Bigfoot International

This week, a New Orleans Uber driver who changed a novelist's life forever, international Bigfoot sightings that prove these creatures aren't just an American phenomenon, and fevered coverage of the very recent Buga sphere press conference, with a truckload of new claims and details.

Show Notes

• A psychic Uber driver delivers eerily accurate personal insights and a message "from the other side" to a New Orleans novelist

• Tom brings up the ancient symbolism of crossroads as liminal spaces between worlds, from Greek shrines to Hermes to the Mississippi Delta blues tradition

• Mal wrestles with whether we're making choices or just consenting to some kind of predetermined path

• An Ucumar sighting from Argentina (their version of “Bigfoot”)

• Why calling it "Bigfoot" is a convenient and lazy way of discrediting legitimate phenomena

• What motivates a hoaxer?

• Four spheres and counting! Mal reports on an international press conference — nearly three hours of testimony from Mexican university researchers, congressmen, lawyers, and the actual finders of the spheres

• One finder’s account of hearing humming, feeling "internal peace", and nausea after holding it against his stomach

• The Brazilian Air Force apparently tried to “reclaim” the sphere, claiming it was their reverse-engineered technology from 2011(?!?!)

• Sphere behavior aligns with classic paranormal patterns

• Small production choices (like costume continuity) actually make the press conference seem more authentic

• We wonder when psi-researchers might be brought in to attempt some sort of consciousness-based interaction

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Q’s looking for A’s

1. Have you ever shared a special connection with an Uber driver?
   (Please keep it PG)

2. What’s a better way to refer to “Bigfoot” sightings that’s maybe not so dismissive?

3. Also, uh, have you ever seen one?

4. Your best theory on the Buga sphere(s)…

5. What’s the most sophisticated and/or incredible hoax you’ve ever heard of?

6. How are we doing at trying to strike the balance between skepticism and open-mindedness?

Keep your eye on the spheres.